Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "formal-dinner"

1. Air Force One (1997)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Communist radicals hijack Air Force One with the U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson

Votes: 210,163 | Gross: $172.96M

2. Phantom Thread (2017)

R | 130 min | Drama, Romance

Set in 1950s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Julie Vollono

Votes: 145,567 | Gross: $21.02M

3. Crimson Peak (2015)

R | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam

Votes: 158,326 | Gross: $31.09M

4. The Remains of the Day (1993)

PG | 134 min | Drama, Romance

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve

Votes: 84,476 | Gross: $22.95M

5. The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

R | 94 min | Biography, Drama, War

Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.

Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: Paul Rudd, Pierfrancesco Favino, Tom Wilkinson, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 11,883 | Gross: $0.71M

6. The Young Victoria (2009)

PG | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson

Votes: 66,408 | Gross: $11.00M

7. Austenland (2013)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

Obsessed with Pride and Prejudice (1995), a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.

Director: Jerusha Hess | Stars: Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Jennifer Coolidge, Bret McKenzie

Votes: 23,671 | Gross: $2.15M

8. Easy Money (1983)

R | 95 min | Comedy

To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard-living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before they get the best of him.

Director: James Signorelli | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Candice Azzara

Votes: 10,145 | Gross: $29.31M

9. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 14,452

10. The Damned (1969)

R | 157 min | Drama, War

The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.

Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger

Votes: 9,927 | Gross: $0.63M

11. Indiscreet (1958)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him--although he's already married.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert

Votes: 10,229

12. How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

Approved | 118 min | Comedy

A dedicated bachelor drunkenly marries a young woman and immediately lives to regret it.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff

Votes: 6,953 | Gross: $12.47M

13. Dean Spanley (2008)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.

Director: Toa Fraser | Stars: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O'Toole

Votes: 3,824

14. Can-Can (1960)

Approved | 131 min | Comedy, Musical

In 1896 Paris, a female nightclub proprietor fights against the forces of public morality for the right to feature her performers doing the risqué dance, the Can-Can.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan

Votes: 2,490

15. Augustine (2012)

Not Rated | 102 min | Biography, Drama, History

A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.

Director: Alice Winocour | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni

Votes: 1,640 | Gross: $0.11M

16. The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)

Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, War

In 1943, a group of captured Allied military can't agree on an escape plan, The allies headquarters develop a plan and send in a man who they hope is captured, to coordinate the captives' escape.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Andrew Duggan, Tom Bosley

Votes: 1,784 | Gross: $7.70M

17. To the Lighthouse (1983 TV Movie)

115 min | Drama

A family spends their last summer at the seashore, before personal tragedy and the outbreak of World War I destroy their world.

Director: Colin Gregg | Stars: Rosemary Harris, Michael Gough, Suzanne Bertish, Lynsey Baxter

Votes: 230

18. The Return of Count Yorga (1971)

R | 97 min | Horror

Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.

Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley, Roger Perry, Yvonne Wilder

Votes: 1,523

19. Three Sappy People (1939)

18 min | Comedy, Short

The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for... See full summary »

Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lorna Gray

Votes: 640

20. Four Dimensions of Greta (1972)

R | 85 min | Comedy

Hans a young German journalist arrives in London to write an article about au-pair girls, but is requested by friends to investigate the whereabouts of their teenage daughter Greta.

Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Tristan Rogers, Karen Boyes, Alan Curtis, Robin Askwith

Votes: 267

21. The Politician's Wife (1995)

185 min | Drama

A woman's life is turned upside down when it is revealed that her husband, a member of the British Parliament, has been having an affair with a former prostitute.

Stars: Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Trevor Eve, Frederick Treves

Votes: 552

22. The Big Hangover (1950)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy

A law school graduate is hired by a top law firm, but hides from them a secret about a problem he has. He is so allergic to alcohol that one whiff of it and he passes out like a light.

Director: Norman Krasna | Stars: Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Percy Waram, Fay Holden

Votes: 578

23. The Birds and the Bees (1956)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 248

24. Je veux voir (2008)

75 min | Drama

July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine Deneuve and a friend, actor and artist Rabih Mroue;, on the roads of South Lebanon. ... See full summary »

Directors: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Curmi, Joseph Silva, Joana Hadjithomas

Votes: 318

25. Oh! Oh! Cleopatra (1931)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy

A mad scientist creates a time travel pill, which two goofballs volunteer to test, transporting them to ancient Egypt as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar vying for the beautiful Cleopatra's love in a chariot race.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Burgess, Robert Frazer

Votes: 38

26. Personal Maid's Secret (1935)

Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A maid helps her employers climb the social ladder and has a secretive interest in one particular socialite.

Director: Arthur Greville Collins | Stars: Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Anita Louise, Ruth Donnelly

Votes: 290

27. Hotsy-Totsy (1925)

Passed | Short, Comedy

The boss is giving a banquet in honor of his new partner and Alice has been chosen by the employees of the store to attend the event. She is to make a speech before presenting a loving cup ... See full summary »

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Alice Day, Danny O'Shea, Barney Hellum, Eugenia Gilbert

28. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: Regarding Reggie (1999)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

Becker fears that Reggie may get the wrong idea if he asks her to be his date at a medical fund-raising dinner.

Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Ted Danson, Terry Farrell, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 121

29. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: Show of Hands (1965)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Rob and Laura have no choice but to wear gloves to an important community banquet due to an unusual accident while dying a costume for Ritchie's school play.

Director: Theodore J. Flicker | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Votes: 249

30. The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–1977)
Episode: A Present Sovereign (1976)

TV-PG | 52 min | Drama

A feisty, determined, kind hearted young woman embarks on her career 'to be the best cook in England,' when she's employed in the London home of a well connected aristocrat.

Director: Bill Bain | Stars: Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove, Donald Burton, Bryan Coleman

Votes: 75

31. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.2444 (2003)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Christiana Ebohon-Green | Stars: Sid Owen, Lucy Speed, Nicholas R. Bailey, Jessie Wallace

Votes: 7

32. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996)
Episode: The Fresh Prince Project (1990)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

A streetwise teenager is sent by his mother to live with wealthy relatives in an upper-class California neighborhood, where he must adjust to a new lifestyle.

Director: Debbie Allen | Stars: Will Smith, James Avery, Janet Hubert, Alfonso Ribeiro

Votes: 1,614

33. Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode: An Evening of Generals (1967)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War

Posing as waiters, the heroes want to get rid of a room full of German generals.

Director: Bob Sweeney | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary

Votes: 181

34. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968)
Episode: The Arabian Affair (1965)

TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Thrush, at a base in the Middle East, is developing a "vaporizer," which dissolves almost any object. Kuryakin tries to enlist the assistance of a tribe of Arabs to help. Solo, meanwhile, ... See full summary »

Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck | Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Phyllis Newman

Votes: 100

35. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968)
Episode: The Ultimate Computer Affair (1965)

TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Thrush is developing an "ultimate computer," which, if it becomes fully operational, will mean the criminal organization even more formidable. The device is housed in a Thrush facility that... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 110

36. Taxi (1978–1983)
Episode: Elegant Iggy (1982)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Elaine is invited to a high society dinner, with Jim as her date.

Director: Noam Pitlik | Stars: Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza

Votes: 211

37. That's My Bush! (2001)
Episode: An Aborted Dinner Date (2001)

TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy

The President is scheduled to unite the leaders of the Pro-Life and the Pro-Choice movements over dinner at the White House. Unfortunately, George realizes he's double booked as he has a date with his wife that can't be postponed.

Director: Jeff Melman | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Carrie Quinn Dolin, Kurt Fuller, Marcia Wallace

Votes: 78

38. The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968–1970)
Episode: Wedding Day????? (1970)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Thanks to Cousin Harriet's gossip, Carolyn's parents get the idea that the Captain is a real man that their daughter is seeing and come for a visit wanting to meet him.

Director: Carl Shain | Stars: Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare, Reta Shaw, Charles Nelson Reilly

Votes: 33

39. Meet the Natives (2007– )
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2007)

TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary

The ambassadors of Tanna embark on a trip to Peoria, Illinois -- an industrial heartland in Middle America. Chief and the tribe partake in the tradition of Thanksgiving and discover the value of sharing equals their own in Tanna.

Director: Gavin Searle | Stars: Yapa Nekiwris, Posen Iarpita Napu, Albi Nangia, Jimmy Joseph Nakou

40. Blue Murder (2003–2009)
Episode: Private Sins: Part 1 (2009)

TV-MA | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After being honored as a "super cop," DS Shap begins a private rogue investigation of the murder of an illegal Belarusian immigrant.

Director: Juliet May | Stars: Caroline Quentin, Ian Kelsey, Paul Loughran, Nicholas Murchie

Votes: 104

41. Emma (2009)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2009)

TV-PG | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Despite the disapproval of both George and John Knightley, Emma continues to line vicar Elton up for Harriet and she is deeply shocked when, alone in a carriage with him, he professes his ... See full summary »

Director: Jim O'Hanlon | Stars: Romola Garai, Louise Dylan, Blake Ritson, Michael Gambon

Votes: 240

42. Gangs of London (2020– )
Episode: Episode 4 (2020)

TV-MA | 57 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Elliot's loyalty is tested by an increasingly suspicious Ed Dumani; Sean throws a dinner in an attempt to unite the two families; Alexander is asked to meet with an old contact.

Directors: Corin Hardy, Gareth Evans | Stars: Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati, Colm Meaney, Paapa Essiedu

Votes: 650

43. Downton Abbey (2010–2015)
Episode: Episode #1.5 (2010)

TV-14 | 49 min | Drama, Romance

Bates sees Thomas stealing a bottle of wine, the footman tries to frame him for petty theft, and Mrs. Crawley tries to convince the Dowager Countess to surrender her annual entitlement prize for best bloom in the village.

Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter

Votes: 2,309

44. Amish: World's Squarest Teenagers (2010)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2010)

Documentary

The five Amish youngsters move to Scotland to stay with a wealthy family, in a castle, with a hunting lodge. The life style is such that they have only read about. The family then takes ... See full summary »

Directors: Harry Beney, Claire Whalley | Stars: Leah Miller, Veronica Drysdale, Leon Lehman, Andrew Miller

Votes: 6

45. Zorro (2024– )
Episode: La apuesta (2024)

Action

Missing woman in Chinatown spurs Zorro to action. Explosion at the Ramirez mine exacerbates the situation. Diego is pained to learn of his father's murder.

Director: Jorge Saavedra | Stars: Miguel Bernardeau, Renata Notni, Dalia Xiuhcoatl, Emiliano Zurita

Votes: 116

46. Big Brother (2000– )
Episode: Episode #13.54 (2012)

Documentary, Game-Show, Reality-TV

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Stars: Marcus Bentley, Luke Anderson, Becky Hannon, Ashleigh Hughes

47. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009–2014)
Episode: Episode dated 12 April 2012 (2012)

TV-14 | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show

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Director: Dan Opsal | Stars: Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, Fred Armisen, Scarlett Benchley

48. Downton Abbey (2010–2015)
Episode: Episode #4.3 (2013)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, Romance

An extravagant house party at the Abbey gives the Crawleys a chance to reconnect with old friends, but some guests prove more welcome than others, and along with the celebrations come deceit and heartache.

Director: Catherine Morshead | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle

Votes: 1,762

49. Morning Wire (2021– )
Blinken's China Trip & Congressional Appropriations | 6.19.23 (2023 Podcast Episode)

13 min | Talk-Show

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Stars: Georgia Howe, John Bickley

50. Celebrity Big Brother (2001– )
Episode: The Final Countdown (2013)

Reality-TV

Celebrity Big Brother is a reality TV game show in which a group of celebrities, referred to as housemates, live in isolation from the outside world in a custom built "house", constantly ... See full summary »

Stars: Sophie Anderton, Ron Atkinson, Marcus Bentley, Danielle Marr Collins